Friday's Miscellany 10-20-2017

38 North

·         Is Mt. Mantap Suffering from “Tired Mountain Syndrome?”

·         Is North Korea Going Green? The Strategic Potential of Algae Production

·         The Party Roundup: Preliminary Look at North Korea’s October 7Central Committee Plenum

·         Significant Food Shortages Likely in North Korea

AidData

·         Aid, China, and Growth: Evidence from a New Global Development Finance Dataset

·         How Transparency Affects Distributional Politics: A Field Experiment among Elected Incumbents in Malawi

Al Jazeera Center for Studies

·         Libya’s New Action Plan: A Recipe for Success?

American Academy for Strategic Education

·         Rethinking the Economic Dimension of U.S. China Strategy

American Enterprise Institute

·         Repair and Rebuild: Balancing New Military Spending for a Three-Theater Strategy

·         Unleashing the Power of Administrative Data: A Guide for Federal,State, and Local Policymakers

Amnesty International

·         Kill Those Criminals: Security Forces Violations in Kenya's August 2017 Elections

·         Poland: On the Streets to Defend Human Rights, Harassment,Surveillance and Prosecution of Protesters

·         Rohingya Targeted in Crimes Against Humanity in Myanmar

Army University Press

·         Journal of Military Learning, October 2017, v. 1, no. 2

o    Answering the Hottest Question in Army Education: What is Army University?

o    Mindfulness as a Method to Enhance Cognitive Performance in Future Strategic Leaders

o    Gender-role Socialization and Academic Performance of Female Naval Personnel during Continuing Professional Education: Implications for Security Challenges in Nigeria

o    Reengineering Army Education for Adult Learners

o    An Engine for Army Learning: Army University’s Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence

o    Enhancing Learning using Multimedia in Professional Military Education

o    Using Blackboard Learning Management System to Improve Writing Skills

o    The Reflective Military Practitioner: How Military Professionals Think in Action

Atlantic Council

·         Aligning Economic Sanctions

·         Iran's Fingerprints in Yemen: Real or Imagined?

·         A Strategy for the Trans-Pacific Century

Australian Parliament

·         Defense Cooperation with Myanmar: Australia and Other Countries:  A Quick Guide

·         Iran Nuclear Deal: Facts, Issues, Stakeholders, and Australian Policy:  A Quick Guide

Australian Air Power Development Centre

·         Pathfinder Issue 297—The C-27J Battlefield Airlifter

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

·         Elections at the UN: Australia’s Approach

Baker Institute for Public Policy

·         Frac Ranching vs. Cattle Ranching

Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)

·         Tunisia, Slow Progress in a Turbulent Region

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

·         Between the Iranian Threat and the Palestinian State Threat

·         The Har Adar Attack: A Reminder of the Fragility of Israel’s Security Landscape

·         Israel Faces a Growing Enemy Drone Threat

·         The Militia Option in Syria

·         The Norwegian Elections, Israel, and the Jews

·         Russia’s Air Defenses in Syria: More Politics than Punch

·         Trump: No More Nation-Building Abroad

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

·         North Korea’s Biological Weapons Program: The Known and Unknown

Brookings

·         China’s new Politburo Standing Committee

·         The Equifax Data Breach is the National Wake-up Moment We Expected

·         Gauging Investment in Self-driving Cars

·         Puerto Rico’s Recovery Requires a Sustained Federal Commitment

·         States have Already Tried Trump’s Health Care Order. It Went Badly

·         Tracking Deregulation in the Trump Era

·         Who is Poor in the United States? A Hamilton Project Annual Report

Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

·         Canada and Russia: No Room to Manoeuvre

·         The North American Process: Intent, Reality and the Future of the North American Free Trade Agreement

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

·         Understanding Cyber Conflict: 14 Analogies

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CATO Institute

·         Is Preventive Care Worth the Cost? Evidence from Mandatory Checkups in Japan

Center for Global Development

·         Can Africa Be a Manufacturing Destination?  Labor Costs in Comparative Perspective

Center for Immigration Studies

·         U.S. Immigrant Population Hit Record 43.7 Million in 2016

Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

·         Advancing Globally Integrated Logistics Effort 2017 Wargame Report

·         Insights for the Third Offset: Addressing Challenges of Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence in Military Operations

·         Measuring College Readiness Under ESSA: Admissions and Placement Exams

·         Risk and Reward in Investment Decisions

·         Transnational Challenges and U.S. National Security: Defining and Prioritizing Borderless Threats

Center for Security Studies (CSS)

·         Caucasus Analytical Digest: no. 98, Armenian Elections

·         Russian Analytical Digest: no. 209, Russia's Political Role in East Asia

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

·         Islam and the Patterns in Terrorism and Violent Extremism

·         PacNet #75 - The Philippines and joint development in the South China Sea

Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity

·         Cybersecurity of Olympic Sports

Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction

·         Competitive Symposium 2017: A Model for Interactive Learning and Policy Innovation

Centre for European Reform (CER)

·         Turkey and the EU: No End to the Drift

Chatham House

·         Recommendations for Reducing Tensions in the Interplay Between Sanctions, Counterterrorism Measures and Humanitarian Action

·         The Struggle for Ukraine

Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

·         Do Global Rankings Really Matter?

Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)

·         CTC Sentinel, October 2017, v. 10, no. 9

o    A View from the CT Foxhole: Lisa Monaco, Former Assistant to President Barack Obama for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism

o    The Cybercoaching of Terrorists: Cause for Alarm?

o    The Hawija Offensive: A Liberation Exposes Faultlines

o    Crime as Jihad: Developments in the Crime-Terror Nexus in Europe

o    New Developments in the Islamic State’s External Operations: The 2017 Sydney Plane Plot

o    The Evolution of the Islamic State’s Chemical Weapons Efforts

Congress. House. Energy & Commerce Committee

·         21st Century Trade Barriers: Protectionist Cross Border Data Flow Policies' Impact on U.S. Jobs

·         Department of Energy Missions and Management Priorities

Congress. Senate. Armed Services Committee

·         Roles and Responsibilities for Defending the Nation from Cyber Attack

Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee

·         Modernizing the Food for Peace Program

Congress. Senate. Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee

·         Broken Beakers: Federal Support for Research

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

·         Measuring the Adequacy of Retirement Income: A Primer

Council on Foreign Relations

·         The Rise of Digital Protectionism: Implications for U.S. Interests and Options for Policymakers

Department of Defense (DOD)

·         Department of Defense Infrastructure Capacity

Department of State

·         2017 Global Funding and Projects

East West Center

·         Malaysian Reactions and the Political Calculus of Prime Minister Najib’s White House Visit

Economic Research Forum (ERF)

·         Analyzing Wage Differentials by Fields of Study: Evidence From Turkey

·         The Impact of Ownership on Corporate Performance: The Case of the UAE

·         Political Economy of Sovereign Wealth Funds in the Oil Exporting Countries of the Arab Region and Especially the Gulf

·         Regional Inequalities in Child Malnutrition in Egypt, Jordan, and Yemen: A Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition Analysis

Egmont Institute

·         African Futures: Horizon 2025

·         European Defense: What’s in the CARDs for Permanent Structured Cooperation?

El Real Instituto Elcano

·         Catalonia’s Independence Bid: How Did We Get Here? What is the European Dimension? What Next?

Energy Information Administration (EIA)

·         Saudi Arabia  Country Analysis Brief - October 2017

European Parliament

·         Common Rules and New Framework for Securitization

·         ECON Thesaurus on Brexit

·         The Next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF)  and Its Duration

·         Towards Food Security in Africa: Are International Private-Public Initiatives Paving the Way?

·         US Decertification of the Iran Nuclear Deal

European Policy Centre (EPC)

·         Better Safe than Sorry: Time to Prepare for a 'No Deal Scenario'

·         The EU Should Not Turn Its Back on Turkey

·         The Juncker Commission Past Midterm: Does the New Setup Work?

European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

·         African futures: Horizon 2025

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

·         2016 Law Enforcement Officers Killed & Assaulted

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

·         National Incident Management System (NIMS)

·         NIMS Doctrine Supporting Guides & Tools

Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

·         US-MENA Private Sector Dialogue (PSD)

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

·         Parsing Xi Jinping’s Statements on Taiwan at the 19th Communist Party Congress

·         What’s to be Found in the “USA Liberty Act Of 2017”?

Foundation for International Development Study and Research (FERDI)

·         African Regional Integrations and the Challenges of Globalization

·         Natural Disasters and Poverty Reduction: Do Remittances Matter?

French Institute of International Relations (Institut Français des Relations Internationales)

·         Zimbabwe in Dubious Battle: The Unexpected Consequences of Western Sanctions

German Council on Foreign Relations (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik e. V.)

·         Pragmatic and European: France Sets New Goals for a European Defence Policy

German Marshall Fund of the United States

·         How to Lose Friends and Alienate Allies: Trump’s New Strategy on Iran

·         In Spite of It All, America

·         A New Crack in An Old Alliance

Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

·         Unexplored Wars: When Military Assets are Used to Fight Organised Crime

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

·         DOD Financial Management: Additional Actions Needed to Complete the Army's Analyses of Unsupported Accounting Entries for Its General Fund GAO-18-27

·         Drinking Water: DOD Has Acted on Some Emerging Contaminants but Should Improve Internal Reporting on Regulatory Compliance GAO-18-78

·         International Food Assistance: Cargo Preference Increased Food Aid Shipping Cost; Benefits Remain Unclear GAO-18-193T [Testimony]

·         Major Financial Challenges Facing Americans Looking Toward Retirement: GAO Issues Capstone Report on Federal Government's Role

·         The Nation's Retirement System: A Comprehensive Re-evaluation Is Needed to Better Promote Future Retirement Security GAO-18-111SP

·         Personal Firearms: Programs that Promote Safe Storage and Research on Their Effectiveness GAO-17-665

·         Reserve Component Travel: DOD Should Assess the Effect of Reservists' Unreimbursed Out-of-Pocket Expenses on Retention GAO-18-181

·         TSA Modernization: Use of Sound Program Management and Oversight Practices Is Needed to Avoid Repeating Past Problems GAO-18-46

·         U.S. Marshals Service: Additional Actions Needed to Improve Oversight of Merit Promotion Process and Address Employee Perceptions of Favoritism GAO-18-8

·         Veterans Health Administration: Better Data and Evaluation Could Help Improve Physician Staffing, Recruitment, and Retention Strategies GAO-18-124

·         Water Pollution: Some States Have Trading Programs to Help Address Nutrient Pollution, but Use Has Been Limited GAO-18-84 

Henry Jackson Society

·         Trafficking Terror; How Modern Slavery and Sexual Violence Fund Terrorism

Hudson Institute

·         Defense of Animal Agriculture: Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense

Human Rights Watch

·         “I Won’t Be a Doctor, and One Day You’ll Be Sick”: Girls’ Access to Education in Afghanistan

·         “Kill Those Criminals”: Security Forces Violations in Kenya’s August 2017 Elections

Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

·         Africa Watch, October 19, 2017  

o    Maintaining Momentum in the Sahel

o    Kenya Enters Uncharted Territory

·         Agility, Automation, and Autonomy

·         Parameters for Estimation of Casualties from First and Third Degree Flash Burns

·         Review of the Fiscal Year 2016 Defense Environmental International Cooperation Program

Institute for International Political Studies [Italian]

·         Out of Africa.  Why People Migrate

Institute for Science and International Security

·         Note on the Question of Iran/North Korean Cooperation

Institute for Strategic, Political, Security and Economic Consultancy (ISPSW)

·         The 4th Industrial Revolution from an Ethical Perspective

Institute for the Study of War

·         Intelligence Summary: October 13-20, 2017

·         Russia Renews Targeting Civilians: August 14 - October 7, 2017

·         Russia's Syria Mirage: July 17 - August 13, 2017

·         The "War after ISIS" begins in Iraq

Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

·         The Future of EU Defence: A European Space, Data and Cyber Agency?

·         The "Israel Factor" and the Iraqi-Kurdish Quest for Independence

·         Like a Bull in a China Shop: Uzbekistan Traces a New Foreign Policy Direction

·         Weakness, Low Cunning and Stupidity: Trump's Iran Deal Calculus

Institute on Science for Global Policy

·         Climate Impact on National Security

International Crisis Group

·         Cameroon’s Worsening Anglophone Crisis Calls for Strong Measures

·         Colombia’s Armed Groups Battle for the Spoils of Peace

·         Oil and Borders: How to Fix Iraq’s Kurdish Crisis

·         Time to Reset African Union-European Union Relations

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

·         The Macroeconomic (and Distributional) Effects of Public Investment in Developing Economies

International Peace Institute (IPI)

·         Keeping Peace from Above: Air Assets in UN Peace Operations

·         Why Preventing Violent Extremism Needs Sustaining Peace

Jamestown Foundation

·         China Brief, v. 17, no. 13, October 20, 2017

o    The Irresistible Rise of the “Xi Family Army”

o    Chinese and Indian Competition in Space Heats Up

o    Tigers in the Haze: Chinese Troops on the Border with North Korea in the “April Crisis”

o    Alternative Models for the Central Military Commission

Konrad Adenauer Foundation (Konrad Adenauer Stiftung)

·         Big Lake, Big Problems: Is There Still Time to Secure the Water Resources Lake Victoria Provides?

·         Breakthrough at Long Last? On the Revival of the Israeli–Palestinian Joint Water Committee

·         Coercive Water-Diplomacy: Playing Politics with the Mekong

·         Private vs. Public: Thoughts on Regulatory Matters Relating to Water Supply in Latin America

·         Rwanda as a Model?  On the State of Development in Rwanda and the Country’s Significance as a Role Model for Africa

·         Shadow of the Past?  Latin America’s Fight against Corruption

Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory (MCWL)

·         Science Fiction Futures; Marine Corps Security Environment Forecast: Futures 2030-2045

Migration Policy Institute

·         Differing DREAMs: Estimating the Unauthorized Populations that Could Benefit under Different Legalization Bills

Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies

·         Full Spectrum Close Air Support for the 21st Century: Leveraging Air Operations with Ground Forces

National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START)

·         Explosive Detection Technology Adoption: Findings from a General Population Survey

·         Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States-Foreign Fighters: Infographics

·         What Are the Social, Economic, Psychological and Environmental Risk Factors That Lead to Radicalization and Recruitment to Terrorism?

National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces

·         Canadian Military Journal, 2017, v. 17, no. 3

o    New ‘Hybrid War’ or Old ‘Dirty Tricks’? The Gerasimov Debate and Russia’s Response to the Contemporary Operating Environment

o    Looking for Little Green Men: Understanding Russia’s Employment of Hybrid Warfare

o    North Korea: Perfect Harmony between Totalitarianism and Nuclear Capability

o    Martyrdom’s Children: The Tragedy of Child Suicide Bombers in Afghanistan

o    High Energy Laser Weapon Systems: Evolution, Analysis and Perspectives

o    Sustainability, Ethics and War

o    Clausewitz: War, Strategy and Victory – A Reflection on Brigadier-General Carignan’s Article, Volume 17, Number 2

o    So We Speak: Language and Sexual Misconduct in the Canadian Armed Forces

National Security Archive

·         The Cuban Missile Crisis at 55

·         U.S. Embassy Tracked Indonesia Mass Murder 1965

NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence

·         MUJLT Vol 11, No 1 (2017): The Notification Requirement inTransborder Remote Search and Seizure: Domestic and International Law Perspectives

Nautilus Institute

·         Options for Remote Interim Storage of Nuclear Spent Fuels in Japan

Notre Europe - Institut Jacques Delors

·         Strengthening European Defence: Who Sits at the PESCO Table, What’s on the Menu?

Observer Research Foundation

·         Understanding India’s Response to the Syrian Civil War

Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)

·         ICD 311 - Coordination of Clandestine Human and Human-enabled Foreign Intelligence  and Counterintelligence inside the U.S.  

·         ICPG 900.3 - Mission Posture Change Reporting

Oxford Research Group

·         Capabilities Review: Squaring Naval Ambitions, Priorities & Resources

Peterson Institute for International Economics  (PIIE)

·         Can Trump Terminate NAFTA?

·         Going It Alone in the Asia-Pacific: Regional Trade Agreements Without the United States

·         Technology Transfer via Intellectual Returnees in China’s Solar Industry

Pew Research Center Global Attitudes & Trends

·         Globally, Broad Support for Representative and Direct Democracy

·         Japanese Divided on Democracy’s Success at Home, but Value Voice of the People

Pew Research Center Internet & Technology

·         Future of Truth and Misinformation Online

Pew Research Center Social & Demographic Trends

·         Wide Partisan Gaps in U.S. Over How Far the Country Has Come on Gender Equality

Polish Institute of International Affairs (Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych)

·         EU Policy Options Towards Post-Soviet De Facto States

PONARS Eurasia

·         Extrajudicial Violence in Donbas and Its Consequences for Ukraine

RAND

·         Calculating the Economic Impacts of the Syrian Conflict : Operationalizing the World Bank's Damage and Needs Assessment

·         Developing a Skilled Workforce for the Oil and Natural Gas Industry: An Analysis of Employers and Colleges in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia

·         Lessons from Israel’s Wars in Gaza

·         Supporting Persistent and Networked Special Operations Forces (SOF) Operations : Insights from Forward-Deployed SOF Personnel

·         Transforming Urgent and Emergency Care and the Vanguard Initiative: Learning from Evaluation of the Southern Cluster

·         Understanding the Landscape of Distributed Ledger Technologies/Blockchain

Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

·         Role of Financial Information-Sharing Partnerships in then Disruption of Crime

·         On Tap Europe: Organized Crime and Illicit Trade in Romania:  Country Report

Safe Skies

·         Recommended Security Guidelines for Airport Planning, Design and Construction  

Small Arms Survey’s Human Security Baseline Assessment (HSBA) for Sudan and South Sudan

·         Isolation and Endurance: Riek Machar [of South Sudan] and Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-in-Opposition in 2016-17

Small Wars Journal

·         A Bearish Economy: The Economics of Russian Aggression

·         Deadline Approaching for The Mad Scientist Initiative Fall 2017Call for Ideas

·         Illicit Confluences: The Intersection of Cocaine and Illicit Timber in the Amazon

·         The Korea Crisis: When Human Politics Apes That of Chimps

·         Mexican Cartel Strategic Note No. 24: Cartel and Gang Provision of Post-Earthquake Humanitarian Aid

·         OODA Loops in Cyberspace: A New Cyber-Defense Model

·         “Phil-Kurdism” Like Philhellenism? The Role and Impact of the Western Volunteers Alongside Kurds

·         Reign Without Rule: Borno State in Northeast Nigeria

·         The San Juan Island Boundary Dispute, 1859: Conditions for Peace and Dominance in a Very Gray Zone

·         Strange Bedfellows: Countering Violent Extremism Key to Development and Security

Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)

·         SIGAR-18-03-SP Afghan Trainees Absent Without Leave in the United States

Stanley Foundation

·         Regional Responses to the Crisis in Venezuela

Stimson Center

·         Convene a Joint Commission on the Consequences of a Nuclear War in South Asia

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

·         Increased International Transparency in Military Spending is Possible

Tony Blair Institute for Global Change

·         For Caliph and Country: Exploring How British Jihadis Join a Global Movement

Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse   (TRAC)

·         Details on Deportation Proceedings in Immigration Court (by Custody, Representation, Nationality, Entry Year, Location, Month and Year of NTA, Outcome, and Current Status)

Transportation Security Administration (TSA)

·         Security Guidelines for General Aviation Airport Operators and Users

United Kingdom Government

·         Internet Safety Strategy Green Paper

US Fire Administration (USFA)

·         Electronic Cigarette Fires and Explosions in the United States 2009 - 2016

US Institute of Peace (USIP)

·         Governance Challenges in Raqqa after the Islamic State

·         Nonformal Dialogues in National Peacemaking

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

·         #Manich Msamaha: Anti-Corruption is a Feminist Agenda

·         Can We Trust the Qatari Courts to Try Al Jazeera?

·         How Egypt Can Help Hamas and Fatah Implement Their New Deal

·         How to Keep Armed Clashes in Kirkuk from Escalating

·         Managing Washington's Flawed Partners in Eastern Syria

·         Saudi Royal Transition: Why, What, and When?

·         The Scoop on the Arab Street: New Polls, Taboo Topics

·         Securing an Immediate Iraq-KRI Ceasefire

·         Trump Placing Heavy Focus on Yemen in the Campaign to Counter Iran

·         The UN Action Plan for Libya: Prospects and Challenges

·         The U.S. Role in Palestinian Reconciliation: Three Scenarios

Wilson Center

·         GCC Stock Markets: Sliding Toward Relevance?

·         Iraq's Victory in Kirkuk a Harbinger of More Conflict

World Bank

·         The Innovation Paradox: Developing-Country Capabilities and the Unrealized Promise of Technological Catch-Up

·         Trouble in the Making? The Future of Manufacturing-Led Development